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f t , I r VOLUME xxxa. ?????? South Carolina must purchase J: Bonds. Two hundred and fifty thousant registered in the food saving mover The call of President Wilson foi (Uf answered. ^ Thousands cf young South Care pepolc* at home must save food and t The registration of all the homes ? 1 ~ - * * " " ' * i fiiuce during tne week ot Uctot Several thousand volunteer wortis to succeed. Appeal is hereby made for patri v/ith the chairmen of the county cot Libei ty loan committee and help mats South Carolina. 'i ho ministers of th? State are t men's from the pulpit. The school teachers are urged to sdiool rooms. The farmers of the State have n are urged to invest in Liberty Bonds insurance against the hahd times wl This appeal is made in the name call is urgent. It is a war measure, uphold the hands of our president. The movement for the conservat Hoover must he a success. The poop food supply. There is nothing bindi triotie appeal. David I Food administr | Chairman of the PEOPLE OF HORRY ARE WARMING UP To the Importance of Food Conservation and Liberty Bonds The Horry ^^people rae "warming up" to the idea of Food Conservation, i'.nu everyming is Deing gotten in shape for the house-to-house canvass t) be made die latter part of the month. Announcement has heretofore been made that the canvass would be the week of October 21st to 28th, but those in charge of the matter locally have decided the canvass extend over into the next week, closing the campaign on Nov. 4th, giving two weeks in which to present the cause. President Wilson last week wrote Food Administrator Hoover and requested the postponement of the house to house soliciation from the week of Oct. 21 to that of Oct. 28th, because of the conflict with the Liberty Bond campaign which closes that week. Mr. Hoover readily acquiesced in the President's wish and set the wo^k of October 29th to Nov. 4th. ^Vne campaign in Horry, however, will be undertaken jointly with the campaign for Liberty Bonds. This postponement does not mean under any conditions that there is to be the slightest relaxation in the preliminary education campaign for either purpose. The four Horry captains, Senator H. L. Buck, Farm Demonstrator W. O. Davis, Supt. M. J. Bullock, and Gen. J. P. Derham have been working hard perfecting their organizations :n the hope of making Horry the banner ooyuity in the State in the registration try.homes in the Food Saving contest. i MIGHTY GOOD LAND We offer on terms of on secured by a mortgage on the scribed tract in Bucks town Known as the country pi , man behind the counter at the tract contains one hundred an of which can be cleared. Fin frame dwelling and stalls, and Is one mile and a half from sc ville, a shipping point. Rural "oor. Public road leads stra town and Conway road at Tod rin this entire county for the m of the State. . < . How much better terms before this place is sold to so HORirr lai M. M. HEORICK. Manaqer. (The * ;1-5,000,000 worth of liberty Loan I South Carolina families must bo rent. America to organize for war must dinians have gone to fight and the my the bonds. i in the food saving movement will >er 21 to 28. :ers will be neede<l if South Carolina ctic South Carolinians to get in touch mcil of defense, the chairman of the ;e these movements a success in lifted to discuss these vital movei talk about the movements in the nany millions of surplus money. They It is a safe investment and good tich may follow the war. of the Liberty of our country. The The people of South Carolina must 'on of food as proposed by Herbert de are simply asked to conserve the ng about the card. It is purely a pai, Coker, ator for South Carolina. State council of defense. Senator Buck, having charge of the o:ganization in Conway and Buck's townships, has appointed twelve lieu' enants in these two townships, each I ' f whom will forthwith appoint 10 workers. His lieutenants are: S. P. Howes, J. L. Waller, H. L. B. Jordan, 3. C. Dusenbury, G. F. Murrell, and S. F. Bourne, Conway; Kelly Tompkins, Adrian; B. F. Singleton ard W. D. Lewis, Bucksport; and J. F. Harper, T. A. Rheuark, and E. I). Causey, Toddville, Mr. Davis has not yet completed his appointments for Socastee township, Dr. E. A. Stalvey so far being the nly one named for that section, but is appointments for Dogwood Neck ro: Wm. J. Jordan, B. Haskell Todd. Willie H. Reaves, and A. E. Chestnut: V?r Little River, Moore Thocpson, i-I. !;. Thompson, Dr. J. A. Stone and J. L. Bell. Other workers will be announced next week, and literature and full in-I tructions will be mailed each worker | in time for the week of canvass Horry cannot afford to lag in this :nagni iccnt work. We have always responded when the necsesity called, and wo will do so again. More than ?00 of our Horry hoys have already nlisted in the fighting forces. Many f them may he called upon to make ' e supreme sacrifice. Their sacrifice should impress us at home with the gravity of the situation and urge u.i to find something to do to make their sacrifice easy. In conserving our food supply we are making no sacrifice,?we are simply called upon to register our willingness to assist only "in so far as our circumstances permit." And while working in the hehalf of food conservation, do not forget the call of the Government for our purchase of a Liberty Bond,?a great opportunity to invest our savings in the best security in the wrold and at the same time help our government. It is worth while. ?E. J. Sherwood, Publicity Manager. ON VERY EASY TERMS e third cash, balance on time, property, the following deaViir\ ft?AAA ace of A. K. Long. He is the Conway National Bank. The d twenty-four (124) acres, all e clay subsoil. Has four-room about two acres cleared up. hool, same distance from Toddfree delivery passes by the ight from it into the Georgedville Avenue. No better place aking of one of the best farms would yon want. Apply to-day mebody else, if you want it. ID AGENCY, Hotel Grace, Conway, S. C. Putt O ON WAY, SC., THURSDAY f Boni BAYB0RO CUTTING IS HORRIBLE IN DETAIL Facts as They Leak Out Seem to Point to the Guilty Party. MAGISTRATE TAKES IN ANOTHER DEFENDANT Main Culprit Escaped to Camp Jackson at Columbia Without Papers. The cutting affray in Bayboro township on October 3rd, grows more horrible as the details of it are slowly reaching the public. Owing to evidence that was no doubt furnished tc him, the Magistrotc at Gurley later issued a warrant and took in another defendant, Collins Bellamy by namj, so that Collins Bellamy stands charged with William Franklin Elliott in the commission of this dastardly crime. It was the magistrate, how. 'ever, as we are informed, who placed r1 ~ 11:? t?-n .... ? - vumiin nriuimy in ine charge. Both defendants are negroes. The details, I as they are now told, shows there was I a premeditated plan to attack and the results the guilty parties wanted, it appears was the death of the man attacked. Irvin A. Bell went to church that evening taking his wife and three children with him. After the services were over, Mr. Bell started back heme in his hurray, his wife and three children sittnig on the seat of the vehicle, while he himself rode in the ! foot of the buggy. Going along, Mr. j Fell now recalls that he noticed noises behind indicating that the buggy was being followed. When he had arrived tear the Daniel Moore place, where .Joe House now lives, and had just mossed a small branch that ran across the public road, all at once, and with>i.'t any warning. Mr. Boll was seized bodily by some poison who had run round the buggy and aproached the 'ido of the vehicle at Mr. Bell's back, and taking him by the shoulders attempted to pull him out by brute force. He caught the dash board an l hung on, but his assailant was a stronger man than he, and in a shorter time than it takes to write it, lie was jerked from his hold and fell ?n top of his head by the side of the road. The assailant had a knife, while the assaulted man had no weapon and had no time to arm him scir. Irvin A. Hell bounded up from the ground and faced the man who at once clinched with him. They two went down, with Bell on the cotton, but he managed to turn his assailant under, but all this time the assailant was cutting and slashing at Bell wilh the sharp knife he carried, and as Bell managed to get his fingers in the e>es of the man, he cut and slashed at Bell's hand until the member was evidently cut and lacerated in a hundred places. In the scuffle Bell fell into the ditch which runs beside the road. Here his assailant lost his hat, but as the man attacked fell into the ditch the assailant cut the worst gash of all in the back. Many attempts it is said were made at the throat, but Mr, Bell managed in one way n* another to keep the knife away from his htroat. In the mean time Mr. Bell's wife and children were loudly calling for help, and the assailant no doubt fearing discovery by the arrival of aid, turned and fled, leaving the man he attacked in a welter of blood and dirt. Mr. Bell was brought to Conway that night for surgical aid in sewing up the numerous gushes, - some of which appear to have been extremely dangerous to his life. As it was night he did not see the features of his as sailant so that he could be positive of his identity, but he did become cognizant of certain signs and indications I I p: (. OCTOBER 18, 1917. PEE DEE PRESBYTERY HERELAST WEEK The Pee Dee Presbytery in session here lust week with the Kingston Presbyterian Church, came to a close after interesting sessions. The next year's meeting will be held with the church at Dunbar. The exercises were opened on Tucs. day of last week with a sermon by the Rev. J. J. Douglas of Blenheim S. C. G. M. Wilcox of Bennetts.'die j was elected as moderator, A. 11. McArn of Choraw as Cleric, and L. W. Dick of Sumter us temporary clerk. Dr. Lowry Davis, a missionary late- ' !y returned from China, made two addresses on Wednesday during the | meeting. Me was invited to visit th school and addressed the school in an interesting manner. Many people of other denominations attended the meetings. There L_ . o i ' v,uic nuniiK is oi delegates trom otiicr churches. NEGROGAUGHTiN STEALINGOF COTTON The sherfi arrested last week and lodged in jail, a negro from the Red Biuff section, going by the name of "Bub" or Preston Dozier. He was charged with stealing some sacks of seed cotton from Mr. W. G. Sarvis of Simpsipn Creek township. The cotton that he sfcole was pnckel in a vacant tenant hous* of Mr Snr. vis' on his place. Mr. Sarvis did not kr.ow at first that the cotton had been t^ken. He noticed some buggy track* evidently propelled by man power ' passing through a peculiar place, and i fcllownig these tracks he found they led to his cotton house. He found that the cotton house had been broken open and the cotton was gone. The buggy tracks led back again to the place occupied by Dozier, and in r. j thicket near where he had dropped the ! olci buggy, the sacks of cotton were found hidden away. It was a rather bold piece of thiovevy, and the negro might have known that he would be caught, but of course he didn't. iviilTandall is ~ to answer charge Will Randall, who last Spring shot Sam Bellamy in Little River Neck, in J Horry County, has been located, arrested and brought back to answer for . his crime. Both parties are negroes. ! . 'which pointed directly to William I Franklin Klliott as the nnrtv uhn v??id I jerked him by main force from the buggy. These circumstances will I come out at the trial. William Franklin Elliott was one of | the colored draftees called by the local board to appear here for miiitar. service on Saturday afternoon of that v eek in which the cutting took place and to go on to Columbia on Sunday the morning following. He did not show up here i i On the other hand the next week, a letter was received by authorities , here of the effect that Elliott was a4 Camp Jackson claiming to he one <<t the quota of colored soldiers, but wawithout any papers from the loca' 1 board, or any credentials whatever; | and the officers at the camp it is un| drestood were writing the local boar ! ! here to forward the papers to Columi bia. | The hat which was lost during the fight, was found by the neighbors when they went to the place the next n.n.nl'n? f 1. :U..4 Ml -1 ? i uiui i nt? mil win pmy <in ini portant part in the trial of the case. A few days ago it was stated that Sheriff J. A. Lewis had left here for Camp Jackson in an effort to bring him back here to stand trial. No more gruesome sight has ever been seen on the Main Street of Conway, than was presented by Irvin A. Bell whne he arrived here that night on the late train. He was covered with blocd from head to foot. raid. THE FIRST LYCEUM OCTOBER 24TH The Lyceum season will open in ( Conway, Wednesday October tho 24th. fhe Winona Entertainment Company .hich wiil appear on that evening m composed of a Soprano and Header; a Violinist and a Character and Humori>t Entertainer. Their program is consequently of a varied charade*, rhero will be character impersonaj lions in make-up, soprano solos, both 1 classic and popular; and readings of | rare merit. 1 he violin?tb.at master j of all instruments, will come in as no small conti ibution in making the pro| tfiam popular. The Wir.ona Entertain- j j era are what their name implies? Entertainers, and everv one should near ihem Tickets wi'l be on sale at all the l)i ag Stores. Season seat reservation can be secured at the Norton I)rutf Co., Thursday, Oct. 18th. There Vv'lii be five in ~ vv vaviio ill VI IV. I > course. Season tickets will be sold for T .vo Dollars; single tickets, fifty cents. foodWgFweTx october 21 to 28 Washington.?In compliance with a request from President Wilson, food pldege week, set for October 21 to 28, has been deferred a week by Herbert C. Hoover, in order to avoid a conflict with the closing week of the Liberty lean campaign. In his letter to the food administration, the President pointed out that it would be highly undesirable to have the two great nmvrtnionfo nnJ"" ? * 11? ...v,v,.,vi.vg uuuv-i way in ine same time. * NEXT INCREMENT PLANS ADVOCATED t Plans for the mobilization of 19 per cent, of South Carolina's quota through the three day period, beginning with October 27, are being per-I fected. The total number of men to be moved is 1,009. Oniy negroes are included in the increment. . Horry's part of this increment is 23. CLIMAX OF GERMAN STRENGTH IS PAST Washington.?An official statement > of the military situation on the western front in Europe authorized by the French High Commission, to-night, makes it clear that Germany has passed the climax of here military ' strength. The statement is based on data of the French General Staff. It does not seek to belittle the German fighting machine, but calmly to out- | line the situation. In fact, Germany j is said still to have great powers of resistance "which will take all the Allied forces to break." sherTfWasIought wm, franklin elliott William Franklin Elliott, a negro j v ho is charged with severely cutting ' Irvin A. Hell, near Bayboro, on the! night of October 3rd, while the latter j was on his way home from church; i was brought back here from Camp Jackson last Thursday night and lodged in the county jail to await further proceedings. Elliott was notified by the local exemption board to report here for military duty Saturday eveningOctober 6th. He failed to appear. Later the officers learned that he had run away and gone to Camp Jackson without taking the necessary papers from the local board. The officer at | Camp Jackson wrote here to the local board for his papers, and it was perhaps in this way that his whereabouts was discovered. The sheriff went over to Columbia after the negrro and brought him back here without any trouble. - ^ v m mt ' ,T7-^T NO. 2GT TRUSTEES OF HORRY CONSIDER MATTERS Of Great Importance to Horry School System as to the Deficit GEN. J. P. DERHAM OF STATE TAX COM Went Over the Matter Thoroughly For the Benefit of the Pepole. The Horry Trustees Association held its regular quarterly meeting in Conway on last Saturday. Superintendent M. J. Bullock published a notice in the Herald calling the attention of all trustees to the deficit reported by the recent grand jury, to meet the school claims ot Horry County, and the trustees w oe given notice before hand that this important matter would be the principal subject to come before them. The meeting was well attended from all sections of the country, and by thus turning out the trustees show that they are interested in making a suitable provision to place the school system of this county on a more substantial anrl an-.iu ?1 ?pi4>u. The section of the grand jury's report which called attention to the mutter reads as follows: "2. We find that the school funds of the County are overdrawn, and no cash in the County Treasury with which to pay School Claims. We consider the situation very grievous, and in order that the educational interests bf the County may not suffer, we recommend to our Senators and Representatives that they place a levy on the takahle property in Horry, of 3 mills, for one year. "3. We recommend and advise tha* our County Superintendent and the members of the County Board of Education take prompt steps to borrow sufficient funds to pay School Claims, and do all that can be done to keep up the schools of the County open, and if possible, improve them." An in vest iy; it ion of the books and affairs of the department was made and the notice published by Superintendent Bullock last Wi ok. stated that the books showed a deficit of eleven thousand ($11,000,001 dollars. That the people of Horry are interested in education, better school houses, Ion vor terms, goes without saving. But no matter how much we may want those advantages, none of us would like to go so much in debt (o obtain them. The deficit of eleven thousand dollars is therefore food for much thought. A resolution was passed endorsing the recommendation of the grand jury to raise the necessary money by a special levy in the county of three 1 ir.il Is. Much was done to enlighten the people present about the school affairs and connected matters. MORRIS GOODMAN IS INCOUNTY JAIL Unless he has made bond, Morris Goodman, a Jewish peddler is in the County jail, having been caught by the authorities in North Carolina, somewhere above the town of Dunn. He had run away from here while court was in session in September, and did not answer to the charge against him when his case pending In the criminal court was called. He | eluded the officers until the latter r\d rf loaf nrn^l/ wt - ' ? ' M * r?- ? nwn "v-viv wiiaii nu wita mcmw by thorn and brought to the Horry County jail. The charge against him is said te be one for obtaining property by fata* pretenses. o W. L. Edmundson spent .some time here on business last week.